64 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Friday, April 7

Looking for something to do on Friday? The Straight’s got you covered. Here are 64 events happening in or around Vancouver on Friday, April 7.

 

CONCERTS

American blues-funk band Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears plays Fortune Sound Club, with guests Dams of the West.

Nashville-based pop-rock singer-songwriter Vanessa Carlton plays the Rio Theatre.

English rockers Wire perform tunes from new album Silver/Lead at the Imperial.

Alberta country-rock band River Jacks plays LanaLou's, with guests Jesse LeBourdais Band and Josh Wood.

New York City-based indie-rock singer-songwriter Mitski plays the Biltmore, with guests Kadhja Bonet and Mal Devisa.

World Rhythms for Youth Society and Cubbyhole Artists present performances by H'Sao,  Locarno, and Breaking Boundaries at the Rickshaw.

Canadian singer-songwriter Dallas Green performs a solo concert at Surrey's Bell Performing Arts Centre.

Coastal Jazz presents New York pianist and Hammond B3 organist Mike LeDonne with Vancouver alto saxophonist Cory Weeds at Frankie's Jazz.

Galician musician and multi-instrumentalist Carlos Nunez plays the Vogue Theatre, with guests Maria Berasarte, Itsaso Elizagoien, and Carmen Gallego.

Victoria-based fiddler and roots musician Daniel Lapp leads his quartet in a tribute to Chet Baker with the first of two shows at Kay Meek Centre.

The three-day Vancouver World Music Festival continues, featuring artists from Mexico, Colombia, Iran, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba, Spain, London, Africa, and B.C. at various Vancouver venues.

 

ETCETERA

Drivers go head-to-head at the Pacific Coliseum driving trucks, speedsters, and ATVs at the three-day Monster Jam Triple Threat Series.

The Naked Magicians take illusions to a new level with an R-rated magic show at Hard Rock Casino Vancouver.

The 35th annual Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair continues its three-day run at UBC's AMS Student Nest.

 

FORUMS

Ben Put, three-time Canadian Barista Champion and 2-time World Barista Competition finalist, will address some of the wins and pitfalls of coffee competitions at Interurban: Gallery & Community Art Space.

Drop in to learn more about podcasts, recording and editing audio, and how to share a finished podcast online at Vancouver Public Library. 

Experience design thinking live and local with your peers and Domain7's design thinking experts at THNK Vancouver.

Dancer, writer, and poet Celeste Snowber explores how deepening our relationships with our bodies and our senses can break open vistas of inspiration for writers, performers, and artists at Coquitlam's Place des Arts.

 

KIDS' STUFF

Peppa Pig's Big Splash sees characters from eOne's TV series take the Queen Elizabeth Theatre stage in a live-theatre experience.

 

COMEDY 

American comedian, actor, TV host Michael Yo performs the first of two nights of standup at Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club.

New York City-based comedian Dan Soder performs the second of three nights of standup at the Comedy Mix.

Evening of comedy by local improv groups the Radical and the Fictionals at New Westminster's Heritage Grill.

Molly Wilson presents a comedic adventure featuring pop, Motown, and Broadway songs at XY.

 

ARTS ETCETERA

Christine Germano

The Capture Photography Festival, which aims to nurture emerging talent, engage community, and spark public dialogue about photography as an art form and a vessel for communication, continues at various Vancouver galleries.

 

DANCE

DanceHouse presents the French dance company Compagnie Herve Koubi in performances of What the day owes to the night at Vancouver Playhouse.

Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata presents Mozongi, a contemporary African dance work created by Montreal choreographer Zab Maboungou. at Scotiabank Dance Centre.

 

LITERARY

The two-day North Shore Writers Festival features a local authors' book fair, a literary trivia night, and readings by headlining authors Zoe Whittall, Deborah Campbell, and Anosh Irani at North Vancouver City Library.

 

GALLERIES

Pacific Crossings at the Vancouver Art Gallery features works from well-known Hong Kong artists created after their relocation to Vancouver throughout the 1960-90s.

Susan Point: Spindle Whorl at the Vancouver Art Gallery surveys Point’s entire career through more than a hundred artworks that take the spindle whorl as their starting point.

Sonny Assu creates a new series of digital tags on a body of Emily Carr paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Oh, How I Long For Home Marianne Nicolson's installation at the Teck Gallery, addresses a persistent idea of the city as a conflicted promise for indigenous people.

Retainers of Anarchy at the Vancouver Art Gallery features new work from Howie Tsui that considers wuxia as a narrative tool for dissidence and resistance.

 

MUSEUMS

Amazonia: The Rights of Nature at at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features Amazonian basketry, textiles, carvings, feather works, and ceramics both of everyday and of ceremonial use, representing indigenous, Maroon, and white settler communities.

Layers of Influence: Unfolding Cloth Across Cultures at the Museum of Anthropology at UBC features more than 130 diverse cultural garments, from Japanese kimonos, to colourful Indian saris, to the elaborate feather cloaks of the Maori people of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

 

MUSIC

Justin Freer conducts the Vancouver Symphony in a performance of John Williams's score of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets while the film plays on a big screen at the Orpheum Theatre.

Chor Leoni’s BC/BALTICA at Ryerson United Church takes inspiration from the long tradition of Baltic and Scandinavian men’s choirs, and the compositions written for them, with works by Edvard Grieg, Gunnar Idenstam, and Jaakko Mäntyjärvi.

Pandora's Vox and Espiritu vocal ensembles and guests ProArte's CatchingART Contemporary Ballet Theatre present a musical celebration of Canada in honour of Canada's 150th year at West Vancouver United Church.

 

THEATRE

Performance at Studio 58 of The Refugee Hotel, writer-director Carmen Aguirre's dark comedy about eight Chilean exiles who struggle with the effects of fleeing their homeland.

Puppeteer provocateur Ronnie Burkett and his resident company of over 40 marionettes perform The Daisy Theatre at the Cultch.

The Arts Club Theatre Company presents Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Part One: Millenium Approaches at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage.

Hardline Productions presents the world premiere at Presentation House Theatre of Redpatch, Raes Calvert and Sean Harris Oliver's historical drama about a young Métis volunteer soldier deployed to fight in World War I.

Performance at Deep Cove Shaw Theatre of Marion Bridge, Daniel MacIvor’s play about three estranged sisters who reunite in their family home on Cape Breton Island to say goodbye to their dying mother.

As part of Boca del Lupo's Micro Performance Series, Pi Theatre presents the climate-change play Genetic Drift at the Fishbowl on Granville Island.

Mom's the Word Collective presents a performance of Mom's the Word 3: Nest 1/2 Empty--the story of a group of moms whose kids have grown, whose marriages have evolved, and whose bodies are backfiring--at Granville Island Stage.

August Fourth Productions presents Dale Wasserman’s 1963 stage adaptation of the Ken Kasey novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at PAL Theatre.

United Players present a performance at the Jericho Arts Centre of The Train Driver Athol Fugard's exploration of guilt, suffering, redemption, and the powerful bonds that grow between strangers.

The Sidekick Players present a performance at Tsawwassen Arts Centre of Twelve Angry Men, Reginald Rose's 1954 teleplay about the jury at a murder trial of a young man accused of the fatal stabbing of his father.

Vagabond Players presents the Western Canadian premiere at Bernie Legge Theatre of Vinci, a play that sees Leonardo da Vinci's father and mother battle for his affections.

 

ATTRACTIONS

Soar from coast-to-coast across the Canadian landscape with a 25-minute ride featuring effects such as wind and scents at FlyOver Canada.

At the Bloedel Conservatory you can take in more than 200 free-flying exotic birds and 500 exotic plants and flowers.

Edgewater Casino offers 24-hour gaming, over 60 table games, a poker room, a high-limit section, 500 slot machines, restaurants and lounges, and live entertainment, including concerts and televised UFC events.

The Deeley Motorcycle Exhibition features over 250 privately-owned bikes from around the world.

Cypress Mountain features skiing and snowboarding lessons, snowtubing park, cross-country ski trails, downhill skiing and snowboarding trails, and snowshoeing tours.

Take a ride in an exterior glass elevator and get a 360° view of Metro Vancouver and the North Shore mountains at Vancouver Lookout.

Grouse Mountain resort features a Skyride to the peak with views of Vancouver and the Pacific Ocean, as well as skiing and snowboarding, snowshoeing, ice skating, mountain ziplines, and the Peak of Christmas.

The Vancouver Aquarium features almost 800 animal species in galleries ranging from Canada's Arctic to the Amazon rainforest.

The 22-hectare VanDusen Botanical Garden features over 255,000 plants from around the world, a restaurant, a garden shop, and a horticulture library. 

The Capilano Suspension Bridge features seven suspended footbridges offering views 110 feet above the forest floor.

Lighthouse Park features 10 kilometres of hiking trails, picnic areas, guided walks provided by the Lighthouse Park Preservation Society, and the historical 1912 Point Atkinson Lighthouse.

Mount Seymour features skiing and snowboarding lessons from the Mt. Seymour Ski and Snowboard School, tubing and tobogganing, and snowshoe trails.

 

MOVIES

Screening at the Rio Theatre of Jackie Kong's gory 1987 horror-comedy Blood Diner, about two cannibalistic brothers who kill women to make their flesh part of the new dish at their rundown restaurant.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of Jon Nguyen's doc David Lynch: The Art of Life, which grants viewers intimate access to the enigmatic auteur while he works in his painting studio.

Screening at the Cinematheque of works from Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales, a cycle of films made between 1962 and 1972.

Screening at Vancity Theatre of the David Byrne-conceived concert/dance flick Contemporary Color, featuring performances by Byrne, Nelly Furtado, St Vincent, Ad Rock, tUnE-yArDs, Ira Glass, and Zola Jesus.

 

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